Sentences with phrase «than his religious views»

Theoretically, a Christian organization would have to elect an atheist if he really was the best man for the job in all ways other than his religious views.

That's no less relevant or «telling,» as Stone put it, than their religious views.»

Not exact matches

At least that way, the wedge of divisiveness between politicians can remain about politics rather than include their religious views as well.

If you look at the entire religious structure (who they believe God to be, their daily relationship with God, who they think God was before, their view of heaven, their view of Jesus, etc.), traditional Christianity and Islam have a lot more in common than traditional Christianity and Mormonism.

It is so much easier to find some hack to agree with your religious views than to bother with facts or reality.

its not really atheism or religion that I have a problem with, its the hate, control, and fear that goes along with it that I have a problem with, you say that those who are spiritual are into new agey, crystal ball, stuff, see that's what I'm talking about, you assume to know what something is about when you don't understand something you naturally fear it, your self righteous clouds you, don't you get that by being narrow minded in your view towards things, you really act no better than religious fundamentalists, being spiritual is a lot more than just the new agey, think positive all the time that you think it is, its about being aware of who you are?

Actually, they can thank the owner of the store that decides not to obey the law, rather than push his religious views on his employees illegally.

One could argue that this had religious advantages from a Christian point of view, since it emphasized what God is doing here and now in and with us rather than locating God's action in the distant past.

Yep, no less annoying than the religious who have to interject their views everywhere that I'm sure he is ready to condemn... Two sides of the same coin.

Since religious freedom is based on the inherent dignity of the human person there is no question of it permitting the treatment of individuals to be based on the view that some are of a lesser dignity than others.

The Bible can't be used to verify claims any more than the Quran or the Book of Mormon, as all religious texts first require a basic belief on the part of the reader that they (the texts) are right in order to be viewed as such.

The discomfort of conservative Christians whose views on gender and sexuality are being challenged more than they once were is nothing compared to the suffering faced by LGBT people and religious and ethnic minorities in this country.

Its point of view is unique among blawgs for taking seriously varied religious traditions rather than mocking them or treating them in a lowest - common - denominator fashion.»

They talk against big government than pass their religious views on how to live your life.

Why is it that we would not give any special weight to the views of the local butcher, plumber or architect on national economic issues, but will give religious figures who know no more than the foregoing, some kind of free pass?

To the editors who worked on the book, it represents one of the boldest efforts ever to introduce into the religious mainstream a view of the Bible as a human rather than divine document.

Interestingly, I have met people with little to no religious training who seem to have a more balanced view of God than we indoctrinated ones.

And again if you think my views make me seem to be «more in common with the religious than I realize» that's you making one of those apparently illegal assumptions.

In doing so, he neglects the testimony of John Adams, Benjamin Rush, Alexander Hamilton, John Dickinson, and others of the founders, whose views on the source of natural rights are far more religious than those of Locke (narrowly interpreted).

I'm sure he wouldn't want to hurt anybody who did nothing more than not want their children to subscribe to Jesus» religious view.

Since God, on this view, is contemporary with every finite actual entity, being neither in the past nor in the future of any other actual entity, God, on the principle in question, would be able neither to prehend nor to he prehended by any other actual entity, a conclusion more radically at variance with religious experience and practice than the doctrine Whitehead was invoked to repair.

The questions of the universe and the intricate workings of nature are far more awe - enspiring when viewed through the lens of science than from any religious text passed down through the ages.

The traditional religious view on the origin of the Torah is that it was written by Moses between 1446 BCE and 1406 BCE - that is the * oldest * that it can be estimated to be - and many scholars date it to be even newer than that.

The Puritans were never more than a tenth or so of the English population, after all, and many «Puritans» were so designated owing to their views on parliamentary and ecclesiastical government and not to the depth or vigor of their religious sentiments.

Can you not come up with a better world view than the hogwash of antiquated, out - of - touch, religious dogma?

To the editors who worked on the book, it represents one of the boldest efforts ever to introduce into the religious mainstream a view of the Bible as a human rather than divine docu - ment.

If this intent is successfully realized, it will in part lend support to Hartshorne's claim that the dipolar conception of God is more compatible with religious experience than views which conceive God primarily in terms of the category of the absolute, or pure actuality, or being, etc..

It implies a new view of religious «revelation» that is «future directed» rather than entirely «past - directed.»

The future directed view, by contrast, is that revelation about God and religious truth is a continuing thing and, in fact, a lot more of it is ahead of us than is behind us.

We believe that there are many Christians whose moral inclinations might persuade them to take the same view of current problems as our own, except for the fact that they are inhibited by religious presuppositions that they regard as more «purely» Christian than those represented by the consensus of the Church through all the ages.

Although most of van Gogh's biographers view this transition as a rejection of religion, in fact art rather than preaching became van Gogh's chief form of religious expression.

Kill everyone who has religious views that are different than your own.

It was this naive positivism that Kaplan accepted, rather than, for example, the much more sophisticated views of his philosophical mentor John Dewey, as the basis of his argument for religious naturalism.

For the use of those better placed than I, whose direct or indirect task it is to lead the Church, I wish to show candidly where, in my view, the root of the trouble lies, and how, by means of a simple readjustment at this particular, clearly localized point, we may hope to procure a rapid and complete rebound in the religious and Christian evolution of Mankind.

Given the conservative nature of religious practice, it is more than likely that the old view would have won out every time, stifling all new creative imagination.

It is a matter of serious consequence for theologians when a film based on religious subject matter is made, because more people will be likely to view that film than have read the New Testament in all history.

I believe the world views the conflict as one of purely religious, but I think the religious aspect is a justification of the violence rather than the reason behind it.

On the basis of scientific realism, so the claim runs, these questions can now be answered more concretely and often more satisfactorily than was possible with the help of the old religious world - views.

Secularists, about 14 percent of the population, are likely to describe themselves as «irreligious,» rather than «antireligious,» and they frequently view religious adherents as dogmatists.

WHat is really amazing is how we now know more about a guy who is not even assured a place on the ticket, than we now know about the religious upbringing and views of the man that is currently in the White House.

The viewing audience for religious programs is far smaller than has been claimed.

We now, from this one article, know more about Perry (who might not even be on the ballot) religious views and upbringing than we could ever hope to know.

The national survey used an index of evangelical belief (as opposed to membership in an evangelical denomination), which showed that holding these beliefs was more strongly associated with the viewing of religious programs than any other single factor, including contributing to or attending church, participation in community activities, income, age or sex.

In this context Hans Urs Von Balthasar observed that since the Council the Church has become more than ever a male institution, which without the Marian dimension threatens to become inhuman and irrelevant.9 It is essential that we rediscover the feminine, Marian dimension of the Church because viewing the Church as a mere organisational or institutional entity not only impoverishes her from within but also «severely diminishes her authentic religious appeal and misleads women who are seeking a legitimate and fruitful role».10 The loss of this feminine dimension of the Church gives rise to a false feminism in the Church - one which expresses itself in appeals for the ordination of woman.

The religious vocation of priest or monk or nun was viewed as having a higher spiritual sanctity than ordinary labor, the contemplative being ranked above the active life.

He also showed from the Nielsen statistics that those who subscribe to cable TV are actually less likely to view religious programs than those without cable.4.

To the editors who worked on the book, it represents one of the boldest efforts ever to introduce into the religious mainstream a view of the Bible as a human rather than divine doc — ument.

The national survey used the «literalist / charismatic» index of evangelical belief (as opposed to membership in an evangelical denomination), which showed that holding these beliefs was more strongly associated with the viewing of religious programs than any other single factor — including attending church, contributing to a church, participating in community activities, income, age, or sex.

When a person begins to make accommodations in their religious world view for salvation by means other than Jesus and the teachings of the Bible, they have effectively denied one of the primary tenets of their faith.

It is high time that people of all faiths should come clean and explicitly support peaceful co-existence with people of different faiths and get away from archaic, tunnel - visioned view that people of different religious orientation than theirs are to be considered their «enemies».